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Digital Cities: London´s Future

Date: 20 November - 24 January 2009

  Digital Cities looks at how digital technology helps us understand and improve the planning and experience of our city. It will look at the impact on movement in cities: how communication and information technologies enhance a person´s experience of place; how people interpret cities with the use of technology; and how mapping influences the design and planning of cities. It will also discuss some of the ‘big brother’issues such as privacy and security.

The exhibition will be presented through a number of research and commercial projects which use technology to provide planning and design and communication tool for the city. It will contain live and interactive presentations in a number of digital media.

Produced by
The Building Centre

Curated by
The Building Centre and Sir Terry Farrell

For three evenings in October, a new interactive smoky communication will be underway in central London - one that combines a very modern medium with a 5,000-year-old one. In Memory Cloud, visitors can text any message they like to the artists’ creation, and that phone message will be made into light-and-air smoke signals and huge in Trafalgar Square. This new exploration of personal expression in public spaces is from Minimaforms, founded in 2002 by brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos as an experimental architecture and design practice that explores projects that provoke and facilitate new means of communication.

http://www.minimaforms.com/memorycloud/

Excellent exhibition on at the V&A - On from 25 September 2008-11 January 2009

The South Bank Centre is illuminated this Christmas with light displays by British artist David Batchelor. Renowned for his transformations of everyday objects, Batchelor lights up the construction materials around the Royal Festival Hall giving new colourful life to pallets and bins and garlands the riverside with low-energy lights in recycled drinks containers.

The installation is on 24 hours a day.

Admission FREE.

In a busy weekend I popped along to the whitechapel gallery for the David Adjaye exhibition. I was actually take aback just how many buildings he has actually had built. A very nice display of works.